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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my god - go to Walmart, get a topper, mattress pad (preferably the kind that zips around the mattress + topper), and a cheap set of sheets. Absolutely don't buy a duvet + cover -- do you really think an 18 year old boy is going to take the cover off and wash it every week? HAHAHAHA. Buy him a blanket and a quilt and remind him to wash them once a month.[/quote]

Or just wash the duvet cover every month?[/quote]

Not gonna happen

Do you know any boys?[/quote]

I have three who have been doing their laundry since they were 13. How old does a guy need to be before they’re capable of keeping their body and clothes and bedding clean in your house? [/quote]

My boys started doing their laundry at 10, including bedding.  First with supervision, then on their own by middle school.  This includes ironing or steaming anything they want ironed or steamed.  The only laundry I have done for them is years is when I am doing it anyway and either offer to be nice, or ask them to bring down some laundry to fill out a load.  I am not turning out future husbsnds who can't do their own laundry properly.

What I can say with 100% certainty is that once they started doing all their own laundry, they quickly ditched anything fussy (like unnecessary decorative bedding) and anything that required extra effort or time to wash (like comforters that might require a 2nd drying cycle after getting rearranged, and duvets where you have to put forth a little effort)  That's not bad parenting or toxic masculinity,  that is practicality and efficiency.

When they returnedfrom college dorms, in spite of knowing how to do laundry and doing it properly for years, all of their heavier bedding came back unwashed and smelly, very smelly.

Why?

Just look to laundry room mom.  She in her wisdom and helicopter parenting has enlightened us with the answer.

Comforters, heavy blankers and duvets take forever to wash.  No college boy is going to sit in the laundry room for hours while these items get washed and put through a long drying cycle or 2 drying cycles, unless as others have knowingly pointed out, someone puked on the comforter, or they had a virus where they sweat so much that the bedding is foul and must be washed.[/quote]

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